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European holidays
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The most attractive (from the point of view of the cost of the tour) New Year's trips to the Baltic countries look like: from 267 to 630 euros. So, a trip to the New Year to Lithuania (four days in Vilnius with living at the Four Stars hotel) will cost 309 euros. The capital of Latvia Riga will shelter guests for four days for 347 euros: the program implies not only the New Year's party at the hotel, but also a visit to the largest logging structure in Europe - the Lido restaurant, where guests are treated with beer cooked before their eyes. The cost of the trip also includes a tour of the capital's sights - the Riga Castle, the Dome Cathedral, the powder tower and the bastion hill. In addition, after a light morning breakfast on January 1, you can go to the largest water park of Northern Europe - Livu. For an additional 29 euros, you can go on excursions to the Sigulda reserve, wander around the Livonian knights, visit the Gutman's cave and a paradise mountain and ride a Bobslena highway.
If you stop not in Riga, but in the three -star Jurmala hotel (with a similar program), rest will cost cheaper - 267 euros in four days.
Rest in Estonia with accommodation at the Four Stars Hotel in the center of Tallinn will cost 460 euros. The festive program is quite traditional: dinner, show, “all the stars of the Variet” with the participation of Estonian Santa Claus and the Russian Snow Maiden, Karaoke, dancing, lottery.
A special offer for young people is a tour for 277 euros, providing for a New Year meeting in one of the nightclubs of Tallinn and living in the Three Stars Hotel. The most expensive of Estonian offers is the New Year's ball and a solemn dinner in the castle of Tagaper (630 euros in four days).
In the homeland of Santa Claus
The fact that Santa is from Lapland, everyone knows. If you wish, you can go to him to meet the New Year. But we will immediately make a reservation that this is an expensive pleasure. For example, five days in a four-star Kuusamo-Hote Hotel cost 905 euros per adult and 500 euros per child under 12 years of age. For a visit to Santa Claus, you will have to pay extra 65 euros and another 57 euros for visiting a reindeer herds, where children are rolled on deer and dogs.
For 500 euros, you can celebrate New Year in the capital of Finland: the price includes living in a Helsinsky hotel with breakfast, a festive party and a sightseeing tour of the city with a visit to the city town hall, a church in a rock. For an additional 28 euros, you can go to the Serena water park.
Sweden and Denmark
To plunge with the head in the Middle Ages will allow the meeting of the New Year in one of the ancient castles of Sweden. Upon arrival of tourists, a refined dinner of four dishes and a traditional hot glee will meet. In the morning, everyone will be able to take part in competitions and games on the vast territory of the estate. In addition, among the daily entertainment of tourists, riding on skates along the lake, sledding, fishing and a sauna are waiting. After the New Year's dinner, a costumed ball in the Knight's Hall will be held in the castle, and on the street there is a party with fireworks. The cost of a six -day trip is 1370 euros.
In six days in Stockholm, tourists will be able to visit the Knight Island, the Royal Palace, admire the tiny buildings and stone bridges of the old city, to see the Uppsalus - a medieval city, in the bishop's palace of which the kings of Sweden used to be the kings of Sweden. The cost of a trip with accommodation in a five -star hotel in the center of Stockholm is 950 euros.
A five -day trip to the capital of Denmark Copenhagen with accommodation at the Three Stars Hotel, a New Year's dinner at a hotel, two pedestrian excursions around the city will cost 825 euros. For an additional 165 euros, you can take part in excursions on the Kronborg castle (in which Hamlet was looking for the answer to the question 'to be or not to be'), the Summer Residence of the Queen - the Fredensborg Palace, the Fredricksborg Castle, built by King Christian IV, which today houses the National Museum with a collection of paintings, silver, furniture and porcelain.
Iceland
Those who want to save the Icelanders should go to Reykjavik on New Year's Eve. According to the ancient legend, the gods presented the wise King of Kukhulin IV white foal as a symbol of the well -being and prosperity of his kingdom. Evil trolls stole it and hid it deep underground, in an ice cave. The foal must certainly be found before 2005: otherwise the island will turn into ruins.
Tourists who want to participate in the search for a white foal will have to overcome a certain route: first visit a swan pond, then swim in the thermal basin of the Blue Lagoon, whose water has magical properties (it gives warriors of good a remarkable force), look into the crater of an extinct volcano, visit the place where the first Icelandic was collected more than a thousand years ago Parliament, see the Gulfos waterfall and visit the giser valley. Only after this trip in the national reserve of Hegiomork, tourists will receive pirate maps that will show the road to the ISHESTAR equestrian center, where the foal should be stood up. Let's hope that Russian tourists will find a saving amulet and the New Year's Eve will not be disrupted.
Residents of this country celebrate the New Year like this: after an early dinner, the Icelanders take to the streets of the city, make huge bonfires and dance around them. At midnight, the sky is covered with reflections of grandiose fireworks, and the waltz of lights continues all night. A weekly tour will cost 1645 euros (with living in the Three Stars Hotel).
France and Italy
With the purchase of a tour to France and Italy, it is worth hurrying: the embassies of these countries warned that they could not issue visas to those who will submit documents after December 10-14.
Visiting New Year's Paris involves solid expenses: the air travel and seven nights at the Three Stars Hotel cost at least 910 euros, and night entertainment on New Year's Eve will increase costs by almost 50%. For example, the night at Moulin Rouge will cost 500 euros, in the famous French cabaret Paradis Laten with the presentation of the new show “Paradise of Love” - 350 euros, a festive dinner with a parade in Disneyland costs 110 euros, and a dinner on board the boat floating along the hay is 300 euros.
New Year's Eve in the castle of the 18th century Chateau Mont Royal half an hour from Paris with a solemn dinner and ballroom dancing will cost 265 euros.
A rich excursion program before and after the meeting of the New Year is waiting for tourists who will go to celebrate winter holidays in Rome. Air travel, excursions and accommodation at the Three Stars Hotel will cost 880 euros. New Year's dinner in the hotel is not included in the price, so those who wish will be able to celebrate the holiday in one of the restaurants of the Italian capital.
United Kingdom
The air travel and seven nights in the three -star London hotel will cost at least 617 euros. But in England it is not customary to celebrate the New Year in the hotel, so tourists will have to choose between a New Year's dinner on a boat floating along the Thames, and an entertainment program in a restaurant. A banquet in a restaurant with a disco and a knightly tournament will cost 225 euros, and a walk along Thames with a light dinner and a glass of champagne for a Big-Ben battle costs from 112 to 230 euros.
Austria and Germany
You can celebrate the New Year in Vienna for 1175 euros. The choice of where and how to spend New Year's Eve remains with a tourist. Fans of modern music and traditional entertainment programs with contests and lotteries are best to go to the Parkhotel Schoenbrunn hotel - the cost of an entrance ticket is 170 euros. You can cook and lift a glass of champagne in the Vienna Town Hall - it will cost 230 euros. New Year's dinner of four dishes of national cuisine, accompanied by live music on the boat of Admiral Tagetthoff, costs 150 euros.
Going on vacation to Germany, you can visit several cities at once in one trip. So, noting the change of the year in the Hofbrohaus beer in Munich, two days later you can move to the three -star Nuremberg Hotel, then get acquainted with the sights of Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin and Potsdam. An eight -day tour will cost 699 euros.
11/30/2004 / Tatyana Seyranyan